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Before I get my own build thread up, I'll share a few hacks I made to my G5 case. I hacked a Keystone cat6 jack into the back cover's ethernet spot by filing off just enough of the plastic and metal. I had to completely unscrew and pry up the metal backing plate to get it in. Once in place, it...

I still think it is a shame that NUC's firmware has the built-in option to play a startup sound, but we have no way to change what gets played (the Intel jingle).

I think I'll be watching this space more closely now, since my plans for modding a 15" G4 into a 20" G4 seems to be going to a dead end, and I do have a mostly intact G5 shell devoid of much mounting hardware. :lol: However, I am determined to not let my G4 hardware go to waste. can the 2-part...

The 40mm fan at the bottom is an intake fan I believe. Things are designed to help convection along. :thumbup:

Sigh. I have just been informed from my source that their iMac G4 20" dome supply has run dry. I am now back to either adding 18 pounds of weight or wrap the dome with metal crutches. :-(

I'm now trying to reinstall on my NUC. My first 10.9.4 install done by WD's UniBeast guide ran into the "crazy fast forward" issue to the point that it became unusable, and FakeSMC finally borked it beyond dead - it just won't boot anymore. As I tried to reinstall with 10.9.5 following his...

No, it's the other way around. You turn on the NUC using a power button, then its 5V pin turns on the transistor, turning on the picoPSU and the other stuff. The NUC should receive always-on power.

I will finally get my mini-HDMI to DVI adapter tomorrow. Did my share of soldering AND pinning already. Let's see how it works. BTW just throwing this out, does anyone know if the 15"/17" drive cage can bolt into a 20" base? I want to see if I can save $70 by reusing the 15" cage I have, when I...

The NUC front panel header has a switched 5V pin. You can rig a simple transistor circuit (2N3904 will do) to jump the picoPSU. I read about this around here, did it myself, and recomended it to another fellow flowerpot modder. :thumbup:

From what I have gathered from parts diagram, you can put together a 17" version of everything from neck and up (panel, panel housing, neck etc) and install that on a 15" dome. I just went down the road of trying to beef up the 15" dome to support the 20" monitor and it is just not going to...

More Good news and bad news, #2 The last few weeks have been spent on figuring out how to weigh the 15" dome down to support the 20" monitor, and that have utterly failed. Some quick search tells me I need to add 18lbs of weight, but the most I could find so far is 12lbs and that requires me...

Now there are better options than having to coil 1m of cables inside the flowerpot :D in the form of a Dell 0MCP1 ala 2XWPC adapter. There are some $8 analogs on the bay too vs. $21 for the Dell piece, so I am debating whether to pay more or wait longer :crazy:. However the DVI male connector I...

Sounds like a job well done! :thumbup: I was stuck on mine because 1-my picopsu still has not shown up 2-I need to add weight to the base by way of a cut up car clutch :shock: 3-I may need to reinstall since I am running into an issue which is supposed to have long been resolved. :banghead:

Just trying to see if anyone has an idea. I am trying to talk to a local Apple shop (not the Apple store) to see if they got the inverter for the 20" flowerpot. He wants a model number that begins with A13xx. What should I tell him?

Then I came across this: http://www.xccfl.com/product_info.php?cPath=29&products_id=4523 No brightness adjustment though.

They have 450mm CCFLs (MS26450), but should be much easier to source, not necessarily from them. :)

They pretty much told me same day no. :-( I could buy two of their standard UB kits and splice them together to make it 450mm. But this can get expensive as their kits can go up to $160 per. They did not list the length of the LED strips in their kits.

Installation Guide : Intel Haswell NUC Core i5 (D54250WYK) V2 When I finished installing 10.9.4 using this guide (it was while this was being updated to 10.9.5), my cursor was blinking crazy fast, the shutdown prompt counts down 60 seconds in like 5, and it acts like someone is pressing a...

Is it possible that one of your lower backlights have failed? On a relevant note, I just sent an email to lcdparts.net asking about a LED backlight kit for the 20" LCD panels. :D

Installation Guide : Intel Haswell NUC Core i5 (D54250WYK) V2 I will be stuffing my NUC inside an iMac G4 and probably hooking up the audio out to internal speaker and mic, meaning that it would be "permanently" connected. Is there a change to the audio setup we can make to have DisplayPort...